[5] Following her studies she received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation for Young Canadian Opera and was awarded a place on the Opéra de Montréal's Atelier Lyrique artist-in-residence program.

[5] She was a prize winner in Canada's Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Competition, and was subsequently offered a position in the Theater Erfurt's ensemble in Thuringia, Germany in 2009.

[1] She notably performed as a soloist on the Boston Early Music Festival's 2015 Grammy Award winning recording of Charpentier’s La descente d'Orphée aux enfers.

[1][4] Her performances have included the title roles in Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella), and Gluck/Berlioz's Orphée et Eurydice, along with Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), and Sesto in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), plus roles in contemporary operas such as Ana Sokolovic's Svadba (Marriage) and Hèctor Parra's Wilde.

[9] In 2020, when live performances were paused during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lebel put on a solo streaming production of Francis Poulen's La voix humaine for the Vancouver Opera.